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http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/seismology/references.html THE EARLY HISTORY OF SEISMOMETRY TO 1900 by James Dewey and Perry Byerly Abstract The earliest seismoscope was invented in 132 A.D., by Chang Hêng. Seismoscopes of limited effectiveness were used by Bina and others in the eighteenth century....

What is EarthScope? http://www.earthscope.org/overview/index.php EarthScope is a bold undertaking to apply modern observational, analytical and telecommunications technologies to investigate the structure and evolution of the North American continent and the physical processes controlling earthquake...

Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics http://www.geodynamics.org Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) is a membership-governed organization that supports and promotes Earth science by developing and maintaining software for computational geophysics and related fields. On behalf ...

USEFUL LINKS - REGIONAL SCIENCE ENTITIES ARAB SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION (ASTF) http://www.astf.net/site/resources/links_dtl.asp?catid=101 ************************************************************************************************************************** Africa Centre for Technology St...

WE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE FROM OUR MESF ARCMC MEMBER DR MIMOUN CHOURAK ABOUT HIS INVITATION TO JOIN IN THE ONGOING RESEARCH IN SEISMOLOGY AND GEODESY AT THE DEPARTMENT OF MPPLIED PHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALMERIA SPAIN. BELOW ARE HIS LETTER AND PARTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY WEBSITE FOR YOUR CONSIDERAT...

Above and Under the Red Sea high resolution 1000 pixel-wide image This unique photograph of shallow Red Sea waters off the coast of Saudi Arabia gives us a glimpse of both the coral reefs under the surface, and the texture and movements of surface waters. On the left side of the image we see through...

IDC STATIONS ==================================== (Hydroacoustic-Seismic-Infrasound7 Radionuclei) Station Latitude Longitude Elevation OnDate OffDate Location ===== ===== ======= ====== ==== ==== ===== Country ====== ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// HYDRO HA01 -3...

Seismic Engineering Center at An-Najah National University Nablus- Palestine Objectives, Activities and Priorities of the Earth Sciences The Earth Sciences and Seismic Engineering Center (ESSEC) at An -Najah National University has been established since October 1996 in the city of Nablus. It is the...

Announcing the Publication of the Second Book in the International Research Committee on Disasters (RC 39)Book Series Methods of Disaster Research Edited by Robert A. Stallings Contributors Linda B. Bourque, David L. Butler, Nicole Dash, Ollie Davidson, Wolf R. Dombrowsky, Thomas E. Drabek, Habibul ...

THE IRAQI SEISMOLOGICAL NETWORK A PAST REVIEW AND A FUTURE OUTLOOK Mazin A. Al Salim alsalim@clear.net.nz Sahil A. Alsinawi salsinawi@verison.net INTRODUCTION The Iraqi Seismological Unit was initiated within the Iraqi Scientific Research Foundation in 1976, and started operation in the late seventi...

INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF EARTHQUAKE AND ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGY To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the International Association of Seismology (the predecessor of IASPEI), a centennial publication called "International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology" is being edited b...

##################################################################################### http://www.geotimes.org/current/feature_oil.html AGI GEOTIMES OCTOBER 2003 ARTICLES ON IRAQ GEOLOGY Assessing Iraq’s Oil Potential Mohammad Al-Gailani [http://www.geotimes.org/current/feature_oil.html ]http://www.g...

http://www.worldscibooks.com/engineering/p330.html EARTHQUAKE HAZARD IN LEBANON by Amr Salah-Eldin Elnashai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) & Ramy Rafik El-Khoury (Rafik El-Khoury & Partners, Lebanon) This book presents a comprehensive treatment of earthquake hazards in Leb...

RELEIF INFORMATION ON EARTHQUAKE FAULTING (RELEIF) European Commission contract N° EVG1 - 2002 - 00069 The RELIEF programme consists of multidisciplinary studies of two large and devastating earthquakes, an assessment of their dynamic coupling, and an integrated analysis of their consequent seismic-...

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=15364[/b] [/u] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/PIA04652_lrg.jpg The joint NASA-German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission has released its first science product, the...